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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Aluminium base pcb

From: "H. Carl Ott" <hcarlott@...>
Date: 2012-10-09

On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Rogerio F Cunha <rogerio.cunha@...>wrote:

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> Hi list,
>
> Hello List,
> Anyone has a idea how to produce a aluminium pcb over a virgin aluminum
> board?
> I'm looking a way to home brew a pcb to solder some power leds that are
> very sensitivy to thermal dissipation.
> By what I've seen, the companies applying some kind of metal deposit over a
> virgin aluminium board, to permit soldering.
>

MCPCB

Metal Core PCB. http://goo.gl/GXctT

Not quite sure how the pros do it.

If I was trying to fake it, I'd etch my led PCB on the thinnest copper
clad I could find, with the largest copper lands I could get away with
Then I'd bond the pcb to an alum back plate with some good thermal paste.

-carl


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